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Stereoscopic porous gellan gum-based microspheres as high performance adsorbents for U(VI) removal

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Stereoscopic porous microspheres based gellan gum (GG–Ca) were successfully prepared by sol–gel method using ethyl acetate as porogen and glutaraldehyde as crosslinker. The obtained GG–Ca microspheres were mainly of mesoporous with the average pore diameter was about 4 nm. It displayed a higher ability for uranium removal. In addition, the uranium adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous following a pseudo-second-order and the adsorption isotherm was the best fit with the Freundlich model with maximum uranium capacity of 202.26 mg g−1. The UO2+ adsorption mechanism is ion-exchange with Ca2+ based on SEM, EDX and XPS data analysis.

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Acknowledgements

This research was financially supported by the Science and Technology Support Plan of Qinghai Province (2015-SF-119) and Longshan Academic talent Research Support Plan of Southwest University of Science and Technology (17LZX302). The authors gratefully acknowledged the technology support of Engineering Research Center for Biomass Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, 59 Qinglong Road, Mianyang, 621010, Sichuan, China

    Lili Liang, Xiaoyan Lin, Siyao Sun, Yan Chen & Xuegang Luo

  2. Engineering Research Center of Biomass Materials, Ministry of Education, 59 Qinglong Road, Mianyang, 621010, Sichuan, China

    Lili Liang, Xiaoyan Lin, Siyao Sun, Yan Chen & Xuegang Luo

  3. Sichuan Preschool Educators College, Jiangyou, 621700, Sichuan, China

    Lili Liang

  4. State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, 102205, China

    Ran Shang

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Liang, L., Lin, X., Sun, S. et al. Stereoscopic porous gellan gum-based microspheres as high performance adsorbents for U(VI) removal. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 319, 213–225 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6323-1

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